Door To Crime Project Make Sense of A Text

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MAKE SENSE OF A

TEXT (P.78/79)
 Play detective
and use the following codes to make your way into this text. Take a pencil.

WHO : colour in grey all the references to people.

WHERE / WHEN : indicate information about place / time with a dotted line.

WHAT : underline the pronouns (subject , object, possessive) and use the context
to say who/what they refer to.

SENSES: colour the information referring to hearing/ sight/touch/smell/taste.

VOCABULARY : colour the unknown words when you can guess the meaning
using their structure / other words from the text.

REPETIT : identify repeated words in the same part of the text.


IONS
 Open your book P.79 to check your answers. Work on the questions 
to  .

 Going further .

 Use the context to make guesses about the meaning of the underlined
expressions. Check your answers in a dictionary.

What can these expressions be called?

(l.25) ‘ Don’t give me your cheek!’ :

(l.27) ‘ For Pete’s sake’ :

 Use these examples to say what an author can indicate with words in
italics :

(l.6) ‘Her grandmother made a tsking sound !’ :

(l.9) ‘The Sliverton News’:

(l.11) ‘ Thanks for the help, Dad’ :

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